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Apple A9
Apple A9 is a SmartPhone Flagship platform from Apple. It began to be released in September 2015. The SoC has 2 cores produced using 14 nm technology. And it also has a maximum frequency of 1850 MHz. Its characteristics, as well as benchmark results, are presented in more detail below.
Basic
Label Name
Apple
Platform
SmartPhone Flagship
Launch Date
September 2015
Manufacturing
TSMC
Model Name
APL1022
Architecture
2x 1.85 GHz – Twister
Cores
2
Technology
14 nm
Frequency
1850 MHz
Transistor count
2
Instruction set
ARMv8-A
GPU Specifications
GPU name
PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency
650 MHz
Max display resolution
2048 x 1536
FLOPS
0.2496 TFLOPS
Execution units
6
Shading units
32
OpenCL version
1.2
Vulkan version
1.1
DirectX version
11
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 6
5G support
No
Bluetooth
4.2
Wi-Fi
5
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Memory Specifications
Memory type
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
1333 MHz
Memory Bus
2x 16 Bit
Max Bandwidth
14.9 Gbit/s
Miscellaneous
L2 Cache
3 MB
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Max camera resolution
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Storage type
NVMe
Video codecs
H.264, H.265
Video playback
4K at 30FPS
Video capture
4K at 30FPS
Neural processor (NPU)
Apple M9
TDP
5 W
Geekbench 6
Single Core
623
Multi Core
957
Geekbench 5
Single Core
520
Multi Core
962
AnTuTu 10
294590
FP32 (float)
246
Compared to Other SoC
3%
4%
29%
Better then 4% SOC over the past 3 years
Better then 29% SOC
SiliconCat Rating
158
Ranks 158 among all SOC on our website
Geekbench 6 Single Core
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
Geekbench 5 Single Core
Geekbench 5 Multi Core
AnTuTu 10
FP32 (float)
